The holidays are here, and there’s plenty of time coming up during the break to chill out on the couch and watch some movies. Peacock has a veritable menagerie of content to sift through. But if you think the service is just for “The Office” reruns and reality TV, think again. How about heading there to soak up some action flicks?
We’ve got you covered. We’ve hand-picked three of the best action movies on Peacock for your viewing pleasure. Read on to check out the action flicks that you absolutely need to make time for between “napping” after Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.
‘Monkey Man’
Dev Patel directs and stars as “Kid,” a young man who scrapes by in an underground fight club. He wears a gorilla mask in each fight to get beaten to a bloody pulp for cash. Eventually, he engineers a way to infiltrate the city’s sinister elite, landing a job in a luxury high-rise where the men who murdered his mother party. He isn’t there to serve drinks, though. He wants revenge, and he’ll get it any way he can.
Through flurries of stylized fights and blowouts that translate to serious eye candy, he comes for what’s his and mows down anyone who gets in his way. The lesson? Just don’t cross a man in a monkey mask, we suppose.
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‘The Expendables’
Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is the leader of a team of elite mercenaries who live for the job and nothing else. They’re the guys you call when you need a problem solved, no matter the problem. And business is usually good.
That’s when a mysterious contact known only as Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) offers them a job no one else will touch: overthrowing a ruthless dictator on the South American island of Vilena. It sounds like a suicide mission, but the payday is too good to pass up.
But once they hit the ground, it’s clear this isn’t just a standard coup. Ross and his team, comprised of heavy-hitters like Jason Statham and Jet Li, realize they’ve been set up as pawns in a game played by a rogue ex-CIA officer. Explosions and shootouts aplenty ensue for the duration of the movie.
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Maya (Jessica Chastain) is a CIA analyst working through the chaos of a post-9/11 America. She’s tasked with an impossible mission: hunting down Osama bin Laden. As years pass and leads turn into dead ends, Maya latches onto a piece of intel that her superiors dismiss. Her superiors don’t agree, but she’s confident it’ll lead somewhere, and it does — to the gates of a fortress in Abbottabad.
That pushes the military to launch a Navy SEAL raid based almost entirely on her analysis. The entirety of the movie’s action-packed tension stems from Maya’s work, and it’s a thriller that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat every single minute.
Stream now on Peacock
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